Articles tagged with: Warhammer 40000

Just a quick post explaining the lack of stuff here...

First of all, I've left (again) World of Warcraft. I still feel I don't have enough time to play it properly and, while the new expansion looks fantastic, playing it will be posponed to the future. I prefer playing non MMORPGs right now (and I have a lot of games to finish).

About Warhammer 40.000 miniatures, I haven't yet started to paint the armies, but I'm working on a scenery modelling that, if doesn't results too bad, I'll post some pictures (an ork mek facility, where the Stompa might have been built).
It's been a long time since I attempted some modelling, but being orks it is easier (and I have quite a few spare parts, plates and banners to place on it).

And finally, also regarding W40k but this time on the PC, my copy of Dawn of War II finally arrived, and I must say I'm impressed it is in fact two games in one!

• The multiplayer battles are more like the tabletop game. Almost no base management, so you focus on battles with small squads. The number of units per squad is smaller than the real one (4 on space marine tactical squads, 3 on devastator ones, etcetera), but after a few CPU skirmishes I enjoy it a lot. Also the new army painter tool is fantastic (although we still don't get all units preview...)
• The singleplayer campaign is in fact an RPG-RTS! You progress through the story obtaining squads (one of each), leveling units and your commander, and getting items (armours, weapons, accesories) much like in WoW. I feel like playing a space version of Warcraft III. Highly recommended!

I expect to make some posts soon but I first have to finish the single player campaign (not too difficult on Sargeant level but requires a lot of time and you can't save mid-game).

Publication date: 2009-02-28

Tags: Offtopic Videogames Warhammer 40000 World of Warcraft

We all know that the world is full of crazy people. But this is really madness. A full Warhammer 40.000 scale home-made Imperator Titan!!!

The size of this machine is terrible xD

Publication date: 2009-02-12

Tags: Miniatures Warhammer 40000

I've just finished assembling my first (of the two I have) ork trukk. Being the first "new generation" vehicle I've assembled since late 90s, It's been a small challenge having optional parts, multiple positioning of others and optionally non-gluing some of them.

I plan to make minor changes to each trukk, so this one for example has no frontal armour panels (thus, exposing the truk engine), but I've kept the ram because orks are brute and will love ramming space marines at full speed.

I haven't glued yet both the driver and the gunner orks to properly paint them.

But the idea is to end gluing them to avoid pieces falling on a play session.

The side ramps arent glued either (only the side gears that hold them to the trukk).

So in will be clear when the trukk is deploying the carried troops.

In general, assembly of the trukk requires you to be patient and look carefully at the instructions (sometimes they indicate a lot of pieces and you need a second look to see exactly where they go), and you should fully assemble a "component" (for example, the gunner's cabinet, or the engine) before putting it on the trukk.

Now building the second one will be much easier.

Offtopic note: From now on, I will upload bigger images, 640x480 was a bit too small.

Publication date: 2009-02-09

Tags: Miniatures Warhammer 40000

One of my christmas gifts was part of the new shipment of Ork units. I've got it since some weeks and I've finally started assembling the miniatures.

When everything is ready, the ork army will contain:

• 1 x Ork warboss
• 1 x Ork weirdboy
• 1 x Ork mad dok
• 1 x Ork mek
  
• 1 x Squad of 6 ork nobz
• 1 x Squad of 17 ork boyz
• 3 x Squad of 20 ork boyz
• 1 x Squad of 19 gretchin + 1 ork runtherd
• 1 x Squad of 19 gretchin + 1 ork runtherd
• 1 x Squad of 2 ork lootas + 2 ork burnas
• 1 x Squad of 9 ork tankbustas
  
• 6 x Bomb squigs
• 2 x Ork trukks
• 3 x Ork Deffkoptas
• 6 x ork warbikes (1 of them is a nobz)
• 1 x ork deff dread (dreadnought)

I haven't calculated the total points of the army, but having 120+ units starts to look like a good "green force" to be feared :)

I have plans of further increasing the army, but I hope not in the near future (I have dozens of miniatures to assembly yet...)... but depends on when the Stompa arrives }:)

Update: I should not go to GW stores... I bought additional forces and pre-ordered the mighty Stompa!

Publication date: 2009-01-31

Tags: Miniatures Warhammer 40000

A video featuring two painted ork stompas, with close-ups and 360º rotation camera:

They are scheduled to be released on march!

Publication date: 2009-01-23

Tags: Miniatures Painting Warhammer 40000